User blog comment:Bluestripe the Wild/Beginnings/@comment-3474228-20130617020011

Fieval quietly waits behind a tree with his eyes closed as the sound of approaching footsteps on the forest floor draws closer. Finally, after timing his move, he swings his staff out, hitting a rat square on the jaw and knocking it out. The other vermin, taken by surprise, drop the body they're carrying to pull out their weapon, but are all too late as the staff meets their heads as well. With three sharp cracks, all of the vermin are felled. Fieval kneels down besides the still form of his brother, Fleck, attempting to feel a heartbeat.